Our Actions Are Like The Terminations Of

The Measure Of Great Men Should Always Be Measured By The Means They Have Used To Acquire It.

Few Things Are Impracticable In Themselves; And It Is For Want Of Application, Rather Than Of Means, That Men Fail To Succeed.

The Evil That We Do Does Not Attract To Us So Much Persecution And Hatred As Our Good Qualities.

Of All Our Faults, The One We Avow Most Easily Is Idleness; We Persuade Ourselves That It Is Allied To All The Peaceable Virtues,and As For The Others, That It Does Not Destroy Them Utterly, But Only Suspends The Exercise Of Their Functions.

The Passions Often Engender Their Contraries.